Father Coughlin would be so proud

This is so awesomely unhinged that it makes me want to drink an entire glass of mercury so I can go along for the ride. Come to think of it, I can skip the mercury; considering all the layers of crazy here will surely drive me mad.

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Americanists, question:
I know that the U.S. has gone through pronounced periods of isolationism and nativism, and I also understand that despite their Foxy platform these are really fringe crazies, but were there other periods in which the hateful term “Europeans” could be expected to carry that kind of rhetorical heft?

Whew! I sure an glad that we had that kind of “grassroots, from the bottom up” all around manliness to get us through the Cold War. Maybe Glenn Beck could convince some fellow suicide bombers to meet him in a cave in Afghanistan.

I like the line, “and with as much violence as necessary . . .” So, let’s get this straight here: he wants Osama to violently attack the US so we’ll wake up the fact that these terrorists are violent and we need to respond with maximum violence. What’s not to like, ari?

You notice that Beck says that, if he were bin Laden, he would avoid massive-casualty attacks on the U.S. in order to keep Obama doing, um, whatever it is he’s doing.* Doesn’t that mean that by doing whatever it is he’s doing, Obama actually is protecting us?

*I’m a little curious exactly what it is they’re complaining about specifically. But not enough to risk further exposure.

damn, my head just went bouncing across the floor. don’t we usually want people wishing massive attacks on our country and a violent response to get medical help or something, rather than putting them on TV as talking heads? [i’m being generous here, because if someone marched into the local police station yelling these words, they’d be given a room right away, is my guess.]

JPool – possibly after WWI, when European conjured up either wily imperialists who had conned America into going to war, and/or dangerous swarthy Jewish/Slavic radicals out to import Communism into America along with their latkes.